Selectable text in an NSView subclass

I was surprised to see that there was no documentation or examples of any sort on how this would be done, but I was wondering what was the best way to draw and manage selectable text in an NSView subclass. I have 开发者_开发知识库taken a look at NSText, but I think that's a bit overkill for my needs (or is it?). I don't need the text to be editable or anything like that, just simple selectable text (without having to resort to creating separate NSTextView instances every time I want selectable text.

Any pointers are appreciated.

NSTextField should do it for you. A "label-style" field can be made selectable but not editable.

NSTextField * myTextField = [[NSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:rectWhereIWantTheTextField];
[myTextField setEditable:NO];
//[myTextField setSelectable:YES];    // This is YES by default
[myTextField setStringValue:myStringForDisplay];

Set 'Editable' and 'Field Editor' unchecked from behavior of TextField from Interface Builder. Like this.

I ended up using an NSTextView subview to embed selectable text, but for anyone who's interested, twitter's TwUI framework has a class called TUITextRenderer that lets you embed selectable text in a TUIView subclass.